1. English Patient
This is certainly a game that the reader of The English Patient can appreciate. ... The English patient is sweeping his tracks from his narrative even as he relates it. ... Yet he is less concerned with identifying the English patient than with the "meadows of civilisation" (294) he represents as the spokesman of "English" culture. ... And maps are the things that the English patient most wants to live without. ... This desire for erasure is present throughout the English patient's narrative, as he attempts to cover hi...
- Word Count: 6215
- Approx Pages: 25
- Grade Level: High School